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UNCC300
quotes
| Theme | Quote | Connection to CST |
|---|---|---|
| Human Dignity | 43 | “Human beings too are creatures of this world… endowed with unique dignity.” |
| Human Dignity | 91 | “Deep communion with nature cannot be real if our hearts lack tenderness… for fellow human beings.” |
| Human Dignity | 91 | “Inconsistent to combat endangered species trafficking while indifferent to human trafficking.” |
| Human Dignity | 139 | “Strategies… must combat poverty, restore dignity to the excluded, and protect nature.” |
| Human Dignity | 147 | “Settings influence how we think, feel, and act… overstimulation makes it difficult to be integrated and happy.” |
| Human Dignity | 148 | “Admirable creativity and generosity” of people surviving environmental hardship. |
| Human Dignity | 200 | “Technical solutions are powerless if humanity loses its compass.” |
| Human Dignity | 222 | “‘Less is more’… opens us to greater understanding and fulfilment.” |
| Human Dignity + Common Good | 21 | “The earth looks like an immense pile of filth.” |
| Human Dignity + Common Good | 106 | “Humanity has taken up technology… in a one-dimensional paradigm.” |
| Human Dignity + Common Good | 109 | “Economy accepts every advance in technology with a view to profit… ignoring negative impacts on humans.” |
| Human Dignity + Common Good | 112 | “We have the freedom to direct technology toward healthier, more human progress.” |
| Human Dignity + Common Good | 122 | “When humans place themselves at the centre… all else becomes relative.” |
| Human Dignity + Common Good | 182 | “Corruption… conceals environmental impact… prevents full debate.” |
| Common Good | 156 | “Human ecology is inseparable from the notion of the common good.” |
| Common Good | 157 | “The common good calls for social peace… cannot be achieved without distributive justice.” |
| Common Good | 158 | “Summons to solidarity and a preferential option for the poorest of our brothers and sisters.” |
| Common Good | 175 | “Need a responsible approach: reducing pollution and developing poorer regions.” |
| Common Good | 176 | “Environmental and economic issues must be addressed at national and local levels.” |
| Common Good | 188 | “Honest and open debate… so that particular interests do not prejudice the common good.” |
| Common Good | 189 | “Politics and economics must enter a frank dialogue in service of life.” |
| Common Good | 215 | “Education must promote a new way of thinking about life, society, nature.” |
| Common Good | 225 | “Inner peace is closely related to care for ecology and the common good.” |
| Common Good | 229 | “We need one another… shared responsibility for others and the world.” |
| Education | 215 | “Education will be inadequate unless we promote a new way of thinking about human beings, life, society and our relationship with nature.” |
| Education | 110–114 | “Many global problems come from a worldview shaped by technology, consumption, and profit.” |
| Education | 209 | “Environmental education should encourage ways of acting which affect the world around us.” |
| Education | 211 | “Laws and regulations are insufficient… we need to cultivate sound virtues.” |
| Education | 203 | “We have to accept that technological products are not neutral.” |
| Education | 222 | “The conviction that ‘less is more’ opens us to fulfillment.” |
| Education | 52 & 91 | “Environmental destruction harms the poor first, and it is inconsistent to care about nature while ignoring human suffering.” |
| Education | 205 | “A healthy relationship with creation is one dimension of personal conversion.” |